Improvement in milk-coolers



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improvement in Milk-Cooiers.

No. 127,081. Patented May 21, I872.

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Improvement in Milk-Coolers.

Patented May 21,1872.

WITNESSES.

PATENT OFFICE.

ELIAS L. MATTESON, OF RANDOLPH, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT lN MlLK-COOLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,081, dated May 21, 1872.

Specification describing a certain Improvement in Milk-Coolers, invented by ELIAS L. MATTESON, of Randolph, in the county of Cattaraugus and State of New York.

This invention belongs to that class of milkcoolers in which the milk-vessels are inclosed in water-vessels, supported, all on the same level, by a frame, and supplied with water from a central receptacle that feeds all the water-vessels. The invention relates to the supporting-frame, the construction of which is such that the legs of the frame may be folded compactly upon the body thereof, and to means for fastening together the milk-vessels and their inclosing water-vessels, and to coolers placed inside the milk-vessels.

Figure 1 is a top view; Fig.2, a transverse vertical section; Fig. 3, a perspective view of the frame; and Fig. 4, a side view, showing the method of locking the vessels together. i

The frame aforesaid consists of parallel rails a, placed at a suitable distance apart, and

cross-rails c, placed at right angles to the rails a; the two sets being properly mortised together, and composed either of wood or iron. To the rails to legs 0 are pivoted outside the crossrails, and bearing against them. The legs are made rigid, and. the rails a c securely interlocked by means of pins 6 passed through the rails at their points of intersection, and passed also through the legs.

By removing the pins the cross-rails can be separated from the main rails, and the legs 6 folded by the sides of the latter. This arrangement secures economy of space in transportation.

A are the inclosing water-vessels aforesaid, the same being placed on the frame a c e, and connected therewith by staples f and pins g, the ends of the rails a 0 being within the peripheries of the vessels A, so as not to take up space outside of them. The vessels A have central water-pipesj in their bottoms, and at their tops inwardly-turnedflanges m. B are the inclosed milk vessels, having central pipes o in their bottoms entering the discharge-pipes j, and at their tops outwardly-turned flanges, which rest on the flanges m and support the milk-vessels when the water-vessels are empty. The vessels A have handles it, and the vessels B have handles 1. The handles k are furnished with lips k, under which the handles l may be turned, and thereby held fast, which arrangement keeps all the handles folded close to the vessels, so as to be out of the way, and also prevents the vessels B from being lifted by the water in the vessels A. G G are the inside coolers, the same beingthin fiat plates of metal, each with a tube, n, running through it lengthwise. The coolers are made of this shape so as to occupy as little space as possible. The

tubes n project outside of the coolers G at each end, and at their lower extremities they are provided with stoppers 0, which close the pipes 0 against the escape of the milk in the vessels B. At their upper extremities the tubes n have funnels p, placed above the milk-line and immediately under the mouths of the pipes g, which radiate from the central water-receptacle D.

This receptacle, when supplied with water, discharges it through the pipes q, whence it runs into the tubes a, cooling the plates 0. The pipes j being stopped, the water fills the spaces between the vessels A B and rises to the tops of the waste-pipes of the former, which are of the same height as the coolers O. The milk is consequently cooled from both the outside and inside of the vessels 0. The removal of the stoppers from the pipes 7' allows the water in the vessels A to escape; and when the coolers G are taken out the milk can also flow out through the pipes j.

Ice can be placed in the receptacle D to cool the milk in warm weather. The receptacle is furnished with a central discharge.

In respect of this receptacle, however, I do not aver any novelty.

I claim as my invention 1. The frame for supporting the coolers, consisting of the rails a c, pivoted legs 6, and lockpins t, arranged as specified.

2. The coolers A, combined with the milk vessels B by means of the interlocking handles k l, as described.

3. The inner coolers 0, having tubes 01. extending through them and provided with stoppers 0, as set forth.

ELIAS L. MATTESON.

Witnesses:

JosEPH E. WEEDEN, JOHN ARCHER.

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